NaPoWriMo Prompt 21: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that repeats or focuses on a single color. Some examples for you – Diane Wakoski’s “Blue Monday,” Walter de la Mare’s “Silver,” and Dorothea Lasky’s “Red Rum.”
A painting of a bumble bee body filling the whole canvas: a dirigible or a monster, whose sting once spent, will cause its corpse to crush the whole earth. Squeezing the lemon in the clamp I hold the spent half up to my face like an oxygen mask. We sampled many shades of yellow— Buzz-in, Squash Blossom, Dandelion Wish— wondering which shade of sunshine to spread on the walls. I must have eaten mangoes before Africa but I only remember my first taste there: peeled and pared into long yellow segments light breaching clouds after afternoon rain.
One glorious evocation after another of that delicious color!
Great sensory details with this. I especially love: "once spent, will cause its corpse
to crush the whole earth." which evokes to me the idea of how brutal the life process of some creatures, while natural still doesn't mean they aren't cruel or devastating to nature.